Garnet Mimms (born Garrett Mimms 16 November 1933 in Ashland, West Virginia) is an American singer influential in soul music and rhythm and blues. is the 320th day of the year (321st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1933 (MCMXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... // Ashland is an unincorporated community located in McDowell County, West Virginia, USA. Ashland, West Virginia is in the Appalachia range. ... For other uses, see Singer (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Soul music (disambiguation). ... R&B redirects here. ...

Mimms grew up in Philadelphia, where he sang in gospel music groups such as the Evening Stars, the Harmonizing Four, and the group with which he would record his first record (in 1953), the Norfolk Four. He returned to Philadelphia after serving in the military and formed doo-wop group The Gainors in 1958. For other uses, see Philadelphia (disambiguation) and Philly. ... Gospel music is music that is written to express either personal or a communal belief regarding Christian life, as well as (in terms of the varying music styles) to give a Christian alternative to mainstream secular music. ... Doo-wop is a style of vocal-based rhythm and blues music popular in the mid-1950s to the early 1960s in America. ...

In 1961 Mimms and Sam Bell from The Gainors left to form a new group, Garnet Mimms and the Enchanters with Zola Pearnell and Charles Boyer. The group moved to New York and began to work with successful songwriter/record producer Bert Berns. Berns signed them to the United Artists label and wrote the hit "Cry Baby" for them with songwriting partner Jerry Ragovoy. The song topped the R&B chart and went to #4 on the pop chart in 1963 and paved the way for soul hits by Aretha Franklin and Otis Redding later in the decade. Charles Boyer (August 28, 1899 – August 26, 1978) was a French-American actor who starred in several classic Hollywood films, TV director and TV producer. ... Bertrand Russell Berns (November 8, 1929 - December 30, 1967) (a/k/a Bert Russell and Bert Berns) was one of the great American songwriters and record producers of the 1960s. ... This article is about the film studio. ... Jerry Ragovoy (born 1935, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American songwriter and record producer. ... Aretha Louise Franklin (born March 25, 1942) is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. ... Otis Ray Redding, Jr. ...

Mimms went solo and performed another Berns and Ragovoy hit "Take Good Care Of You" in 1966. Mimms worked with Jimi Hendrix in England the following year. He did some recording on the MGM and Verve Records labels. Jimi Hendrix (November 27, 1942 – September 18, 1970) was an American guitar virtuoso, singer and songwriter. ... MGM logo Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer or MGM, is a large media company, involved primarily in the production and distribution of cinema and television programs. ... Verve Records is an American Jazz record label, founded by Norman Granz in 1956, which absorbed the catalogues of his earlier labels: Norgran Records and Clef Records (founded 1953). ...

In the 1970s he released a few funk songs as Garnet Mimms and the Truckin' Company.

Mimms was given a Pioneer Award in 1999 by the Rhythm and Blues Foundation. The Rhythm and Blues Foundation is an independent American nonprofit organization dedicated to the historical and cultural preservation of rhythm and blues music. ...

External links

• Garnet Mimms Page via tsimon.com
• [1] via soulwalking
• Turner, Dominic Garnet Mimms bio via rockabilly.nl